Just got over covid. Took a week to kick that crap. Not as bad as I had it a couple years ago but still annoying. It caused me to miss out on seeing a friend from california who I only see every couple of years.
I too was hit with covid a few weeks before I was leaving on a 2 week trip to Ireland. Took me almost two weeks to feel relatively functional.
Go to Ireland and Northern Ireland. Get sick with something else while I am there. Get some helpful products from the local pharmacies in several towns.
Get sicker. I am coughing and have a sore throat. However, I am now in yet another location and can’t find a pharmacy within reasonable distance.
Go to Irish Whisky Museum and purchase several mini bottles to use for the sore throat and cough. It worked reasonably well.
Enjoyed the trip (except for the taxi that never came in Belfast) but it would have been better had I not been sick. In fact I am still not well. I have no idea if It is long covid or just some festering travel bug I picked up along the way.
I came across this list of many recipes… almost all I would find delicious.
Unfortunately, my kids won’t eat anything with cheese and my wife won’t eat anything I cook. The stove she bought is a convection stove, so the top burners won’t accept a cast iron skillet anyway ( ♫ Whatever Lola wants… Lola gets…♫ ). If it was more than just for me, I’d be happy to buy another cast iron skillet and a Hot Handle Holder and try the making it in the oven… but I’m sure I’d catch Hell for even trying to cook dinner.
Maybe, if I time it right, I can cook something that way when she’s away at my youngest’s college packing him down for winter break…?
Anyway…
Wait, what? Why not? What does she eat?
We had multiple travel plans upset by Covid. The worst was the houseguest who flew/drove to Northern Wisconsin to see one friend, then was planning to head south and visit lots of friends (including us).
Uhh, nope! She caught Covid, gave it to the small town friend, and the two of them spent a week being miserable.
The rest of us, who’d planned a lot of fun activities and foods, just waited to see if anything changed… nothing changed.
(We even offered to drive “Up North”, get her and have her stay with us, but she didn’t even feel up to that).
Only what she cooks. Which are maybe the same seven of so rrecipes her mother cooked… and her grand mother cooked.
Oh, but take her to a restaurant and lay out the menu… then she’ll order creatively.
I’ve tried to talk to her; it’s always a solid ‘no’. I’ve even tried a few end-runs where she comes home to an already cooked dinner… and all she does is scrunch up her nose like I didn’t clean the litter box and say, "So, how much money of our food budget did you throw away today? You only think of yourself…! "
You have my condolences and envy. My dream would be to have a partner who cooks! I don’t even care if it’s tater tot hot dish (extra spicy, with black pepper)!
Covid is definitely an energy suck especially for us older folk. Sorry your guest had such a rough time.
I still can’t believe I was able to keep up a relatively decent pace. Managed to do almost everything we had planned but it was brutal at times. Flitting around in a foreign country is not what I wanted to be doing.
I had very painful dental work today on pre-implant screws that needed reseating. Ibuprofen is barely touching it. I’m on my second IPA. Three might do it, but it’s more than my stomach and dwindling brain cells can manage.
Whoa, it’s my 15-year anniversary here! Anti-rant!
Ayup. While I enjoy cooking, there’s been times when it’d have been awesome to have someone else around here who could rattle some pans - like when I was down with pneumonia, or recovering from surgery. At least I was able to plan ahead with the surgery thing.
Whoa, you’re one of my biggest inspirations in the “what’s for dinner” thread!
Welp, like I said, I enjoy cooking, but it’d be nice on the rare occasions when I just can’t do it to have mr. romans be able to whip something up other than microwaved soup or a peanut butter sandwich. Though the last time I was in the hospital the food was so bad the Wendy’s burger he brought me was a godsend, lol.
Yeah, I hear you!
WTF is going on with men’s underwear, specifically, with Jockey briefs? I may soon have to start going around without any. I believe Kramer did that once on Seinfeld, although the rest of the gang found it disturbing! 
The basic problem is that a lot of other brands are crap where the elastic waistband loses its elasticity after a few washings. One brand immune to this problem is Jockey, which costs considerably more than many other major brands (like, 3x more in some cases) but is very good quality. They’re also categorized by specific waist size, not just catch-all “S, M, L, XL”.
So what am I ranting about? This may be a unique problem in Canada, but they’ve essentially stopped being available here. Last time I got some was from The Bay (the Hudson’s Bay Company, a sort of upscale department store) where they were on sale – buy one pack, get another for 50% off. Today they don’t carry them any more. If I had known what was going to happen I would have bought 20 packs instead of just two. Amazon, which has everything, has only an oddly limited selection of Jockeys, and every one of them is listed as coming from the US with an extra shipping charge and extra time needed, like ordering some exotic specialty item.
It turns out that Walmart, of all places, does have them, but only online, not in stores, with free shipping. I ordered two packs and I guess I’ll find out why they’ve suddenly disappeared from the mainstream. If it’s the high price, I don’t care. If it’s because the quality has dropped while the price remains high, I will be unhappy.
Try Walmart’s “George” brand. I’ve found them to be the same as Jockeys.
I guess it’s a little like Canadian Tire’s “Motomaster” brand of tires: they’re actually Goodyears, but Canadian Tire (and Walmart) has the strength to push them as a house brand, and for the manufacturer to imprint these chains’ name on them.
Thanks for the tip! I’ll try those. I’m interested to see how the new Jockeys work out – I’ve read that the quality has deteriorated over the years as they’ve apparently been cost-cutting. I’m sure the Walmart store brand is much cheaper.
But don’t get me started on Goodyear. I know it’s a big company with a huge variety of tires, but I had Goodyears on my last minivan and they were nothing but trouble. Among which was the first and only time in my life that I ever got a blowout at highway speed – on a front tire!! Will never touch Goodyear or Motomaster tires again!
My current tires are Firestone All-Weather, and so far so good. Not as good as actual snow tires in deep snow, but we hardly ever get that any more, and definitely way better than any “all-season” tires.
Do you mean induction stove? And, if so, cast iron should work just fine?
40 degrees this morning and Housing doesn’t think its time to put the heat on yet.
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I likely did; I don’t like the black-glass topped thing at all.
She told me it wouldn’t and that it’s her baby. Somedays it’s humbling to run second to a stove.